Ev3 Sensor Multiplexer
In addition to loading three lego sensor devices for the sensor mux itself three lego port devices are added as well.
Ev3 sensor multiplexer. Using a single ev3 sensor multiplexer will allow a robot to have six sensors rather than the usual limit of four. Make sure you always have the latest firmware on your p brick in order to get the most up to date experience and security. To increase number of ports a sensor multiplexer might be the answer. Copy link quote reply contributor jorgepe commented jan 22 2015.
The mindsensors ev3 sensor multiplexer is a lego mindstorms compatible device which allows three sensors to be connected to a single sensor port on the controller brick. Here is an example of using it with the grove water sensor. At the time i used i2cdump to read the. The ev3 has 4 sensor ports.
I ve received a mindsensors ev3 sensor mux a couple of months ago. The mindsensors grove sensor adapter makes it easy to use a variety of unique grove sensors with the ev3. Ev3sensormux does not work with third party sensors. Ev3 mindstorms firmware pc mac the ev3 firmware is what makes the p brick able to communicate with your computer and run your programs.
Ev3 sensor multiplexer post by skoehler sat feb 21 2015 6 46 pm imho the existing drivers for the sensors cannot be used together with this muxing device. Works with nxt or ev3. No worries ev3 sensor multiplexer is designed for that purpose. The sensors are what makes your robot aware of the world surrounding.
High speed polling architecture for high performance robots. Need help with mindsensors ev3 sensor multiplexer ev3sensormux 254. These ms ev3 smux port devices must be used to manually specify the type of sensor that is attached to each port. Our custom block makes it easy to read the sensor from your program.